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A wide variety of poems composed by Arthur Johnson ranging from nature, love, events, etc.
The saddest thing I've ever seen
Was a little blind girl alone on
A swing,
She never laughed, nor did she smile.
Her heart seemed heavy for a little child…
-"The Little Blind Girl"
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Pictures of Thoughts - Arthur Johnson
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Pictures
of
Thoughts
Arthur Johnson
Copyright © 2020 Arthur Johnson
All rights reserved
First Edition
NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING
320 Broad Street
Red Bank, NJ 07701
First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2020
ISBN 978-1-63692-070-2 (Paperback)
ISBN 978-1-63692-071-9 (Digital)
Printed in the United States of America
Table of Contents
Prisoners
The Emotions of Nature
Poem for a Princess
The Homeless
War
The Lady
The Letter in the Trench
The Scarecrow
A Cat’s Meow
City Streets
Chapters of Life
Stars
A Joyous Moment
Love
The Brook
The Old Crow
The Weeping
The Clock
The Execution
The Funeral
The Sunset
Just Another Day
The Passing
The Butterfly
The Little Blind Girl
A Thought
A Thought
Sept. 11
The Spirit
A Birthday
The Mountains
The Old Man
January 6, 1997
Prisoners
I watched a hawk circle high in
The sky; and my spirit filled
With the essence of time.
As I looked at the sea of mankind,
Where no bars or shackles could
Be found,
For everyone is a prisoner of some kind
I watched the hawk circle, graceful
And free, I wished a hawk, I could be,
For everyone a prisoner, don’t you see,
Prisoners of drugs and of poverty.
Prisoners of greed and of false reality.
Prisoners of hate and of love.
If
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